Dear Printer, I'm Sorry

Mounting amounts of paperwork are making me crazy. Like, for real. I feel stressed and tense and I'm furious with the printer. Now, I know when my anger and resentment towards an inanimate object reaches a 10 that I need to take a breather.

So, I started reading old entries in this blog, hoping for a spark of creative, therapeutic something. And, I found it. The printer, and possibly everyone and everything who must come into contact with me today, is breathing a proverbial sigh of relief right now.

When I wrote the following, entry it was the end of my previous academic year. And, I sounded so optimistic. So healthy. So... ready. I need to borrow a little of that Katie's attitude to make it through this last push, and then, once I do - I'll be a graduate student.

Read the optimistic Katie from last year here.

No Gas, No Luck

Apparently today is "No Gas Day," a day meant to show the Powers That Be about how angry we are for having to pay high prices at the pump and how powerful Facebook is as a means of gathering people together for a cause. In this case, the cause is No Gas Day.

The official Facebook page of No Gas Day tells me this:

Simply avoid all gas stations on March 31, 2011. And if you can go one step further, don't even drive that day. Why not let Facebook help us spread the word? However, don't forget your local mom and pop shop. Go IN and buy something that day. Make a point of it!

We're mad as hell, and are tired of watching the big oil companies laugh all the way to the bank while we all suffer. Let's do this! 

Why not let Facebook help us stand up to big oil companies? We never had a chance before Facebook came along!

If only we had Facebook when we were dealing with that pesky wall in Berlin. If only.

In other news: My gas tank is on "E."

Putting the "fun" back in function.

Yesterday, I caught myself admitting that I don’t read anything fun anymore. 

I thought about that admission for a while after I made it and I realized that the fact is, I don’t feel like I write anything fun anymore, either. It seems that while I figured out how to put every ounce of my being into my academic endeavors, I forgot how to write just for me, about things that are funny, or trivial, or just plain old irrelevant. 

This blog was supposed to function as the outlet for that kind of writing. But, alas, work has taken over, and I don't make time for the fun stuff anymore. Or do I?

I mean, I still blog… but it’s for school and thesis stuff. I still use Facebook… but it’s for school and work.

Anyway, I don't want to get too heavy here, 'cause that would defeat the purpose. I just want to say: I’m back.

Fun Katie is back. 

Forever Got Shorter is back. (Though there might be a new title in the works.)

Today, I want to talk about something simple, just to get things going here. 

All I'm going to say is this: Genius. 

Thank you, Town House.